Redox site-mediated charge transport in a Hg-SAM// Ru(NH 3)6 3+/2+//SAM-Hg junction with a dynamic interelectrode separation: Compatibility with redox cycling and electron hopping mechanisms

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2141-2150

  Tran, Elizabeth ^a   Cohen, Adam E ^a   Murray, Royce W ^c   Rampi, Maria A ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; CHARGED SPECIES; CURRENT FLOWING; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRON HOPPING; ELECTRON HOPPING MECHANISMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FORMAL POTENTIAL; INITIAL POTENTIAL; INTER-ELECTRODE SPACING; INTERELECTRODE SEPARATION; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; MERCURY ELECTRODES; METAL JUNCTIONS; METAL-MOLECULES; NANO-GAP; NEGATIVE SHIFT; REDOX CYCLING; REDOX POTENTIALS; REDOX SITES; SPACE BETWEEN; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MERCURY (METAL); METAL EXTRUSION; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

ELECTRODES;

ELECTROLYTE; MERCURY; RUTHENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE;

EID: 67849095784     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja804075y     Document Type: Article

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